JC – If the new Fire Safety Service recommends that the items be dropped from your list then I wouldn’t worry too much about dropping them.
The strata scheme and the strata scheme agent are not expected to be the ‘experts’. That is what you employ the Fire Safety Service company to be!
As an owner of the building or as an agent you are only signing off on the fact that the building has been assessed by a ‘competent fire safety practitioner’ and that the ‘competent fire safety practitoner’ found everything that needed to be assessed to be capable of performing as required.
Click here for links to the various Fire Regulation Forms and some Q and As that may be helpful:
Section 7: Annual fire safety statement declaration
I, (insert full name)
being the (mark applicable box) ☐ owner
☐ owner’s agent
certify that: a) each essential fire safety measure specified in this statement has been assessed by a competent fire safety practitioner and was found, when it was assessed, to be capable of performing:
- in the case of an essential fire safety measure identified in Section 5 of this form and the fire safety schedule – to a standard no less than that specified in the schedule, or
- in the case of any other essential fire safety measure identified in Section 5 of this form – to a standard no less than that to which the measure was originally designed and implemented, and
- b) the building has been inspected by a competent fire safety practitioner and was found, when it was inspected, to be in a condition that did not disclose any grounds for a prosecution under Division 7 of the Regulation.